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Show I ; J S)urcb ifntoersal I . -1 ; , o CHURCH CALENDAR. -J. M-'iiiluy,. St. Tarasius. 7:.O.i;0 Jen- conversions. 26. Tuesday. St. Nestor. -7-':;.Mi for tinners. -" "Wednesday. SI. Iander. 75's24! lor the intemperate. -s- Thursday. St. i:omai:us. 715.232 icr special, various. THE GENERAL INTENTION Recommended by His Holiness, Pius X. Parish Priests. The Churc h t. :!cli"s us by her ex.im-Jli ex.im-Jli tn lu-jy fur those whom God has in-, trusted with tlx- welfare ..f our sou's. 1J:,5 Hfter);iy she places the nani s of ur Holy PVther ;i:id of our Bishop in the mouth of her minister at the most M'lemn part of the mass: Hut these dignitaries are so highly elevated above Hie ordinary Christian." that prayer for them is felt as a duty rather than : comfort. There are. however, priests i 10 lire ordained by Jesus Chris;., to s-mne into immediate contact with the Ii'Ule and lowly ones of Ids flock; tbey Pre responsible to Cod for the souls of ihelr parish or '.heir distort, they are our Parish Priests. They know us. am! i vve know them: prayer for them is not merely a duty hut also a pleasure. . It is a duty and a pleasure to pray 1 fov ol" Parish Priests: but it a!.-.o a I most important apostooo work. As ns- Ipfeiates of the npost'loship of prayer ve are faithful to our various duties. as nmtcr ef course: but at the same time we are always eagerly looking for the apostolic tendency in whatever onr present duties may be. The old pro-' pro-' ! v-rh says: "Like priest?, like people." f I 31 ere is the apostolic drift of ..ur dutv U praying for the Parish Priest.?. If J "ur prayer sanctifies an ordinary Christian soul it does n srre.it end noble "work indeed: but if it sanctifies the Pf ul of a Parish Priest, it does immeasurably im-measurably mor?. because It' uplifts all the souls under the oo'-e :f the parish Priest. "Like priest, like people." It' is a pleasure and a duty and a l most important apostolic work to prav for the Taiish Priests. Our Holy Father places ikis general intention before be-fore the associates of the anost'eship for tills month in order to remind them that they (an do more than merely pray for Hie Piicsis. They can rlbsis: their Priests in many ways: they can increase their influence by showing if mem public respect, by speakinur well I of them, by bn'ncring them into 0011- J tuet with the 1 lack sheep of the pa lish, by contributing their own little mite to the collections tak.-a up for the benefit of the church or of other charit- 11 M purposes. This kind of apostolic v.-rk outrht to be very dear to us, because be-cause eharity begins at home. LENT. Out from Mis world my Savior went. Out front the clamor of throng and street. I Out from the home whose shelter meant Nazareth, happiness, mother love I f sweet: . ' " ! ' V"iit from the task and out from the , -r-'- v.n.- - t . 'Out Horn pleasure and out from ease, y Out frim the common haunts of man. Ft - Till the Desert, astonished, her Mas- T I ter sec s. 1 nave no nrcau. tne Desert cried. "You will hunger, Lord; I have only rstone." "Nay: yield Me your bread," my Lord replied. 'The world is hungry: men perish a'one." Ba k to His world my Savior went. Back to the city and back to the-throng. the-throng. Back to where multitudes, hunger spent. Feeding on busks had been starving 1 long. li to 1 heir hands my Lord put food. Broad of peace and of sweet com-, com-, mauds. Bread of faith in a Father good; He had found God's bread in the desert des-ert sands. Out from our world we will go. dear Lord: nm from our work, from ease ami " - 1 hoard. j To ask the Desert to give us food, t Vr we starve in this world for the bread of God. I have no bread." docs the Desert say? (Nay: fasting- nor vigil yields not content.) But Christ -wails. Out from the world's hiahway Ho w ill break us bread. He will bless our Lent. Carroll L. Bales. U N EDUCATED ARE WITHOUT RELIGION j Methodist Minister Points Out Educational Edu-cational Necessity of Knowledge ' of Christianity. i Rv. Dr. Dryer of Rochester. N. Y.. Ins a noteworthy article m the Metho- t ,Pst Review for December. 1106. eiiti- ! tied "An Imperative Demand in Edu- j option," in w hich h.- speaks of religious J f training as a noc c k ity not only fori j morality- but fo'- cult are. . "Tiie time has fully come," he says. "when thoughtful people in America t ' v m .icmanil that the cultural value of i r. ncion be re cognized. We are be - coming waned with an academic 01-i 01-i rofessional training whitdi appeals almost al-most exclusively to the intellect or the I making of money. Human life has an h iOe.d content. That is not an eduea- ! tioii whielr ignores this content and "the chiefest power in its development - religion. On the lowest plane of the survival of the fittest and the best, Christianity is the greatest and most lnfiue'itial of the world religions. Yet low large a space is given in our Iseheme of higher education to the his-'terv his-'terv of Christianity, the world value .0! the specific teachings, or the effect .of its transforming spirit? The time win -onie when the man ignorant of the iia;me and influence of the largest factor fac-tor in modern civilization will feel that be is not an educated man. "To ignore religion, to ignore religion Mn i;s his-kest form Christianity is not Sf to e,u,ato. it is to deform. To do this ) 1n -the curriculum of lhe .institutions of I higher learning in a Christian land, if m. among a Christian people, is a de- f feet which cannot long I'e endured." ' Judge W. P. Lynch Dies Suddenly. Judge Ar;l!iam P. Lynch of the law I ifn in of Lvn. h & Day. Cffnton. and one f of the abfost'law vers in Ohio, died sud- f denh- on Wednesday of last week while i arguing a case at Billion. Judge Lynch was wen known throughout the state t and was one of tiie irost prominent res idents of Canton. He- was buried from i lit. John's church. - . r ; ' |